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I don't think the number is based on any technical limitation.

It could be a number based on usage. Say 99.9% of the users use less than 5M files. So my pruning 0.1% of the user base they are getting rid of half the number of files, saving X millions of dollars in cost.

Nobody wants to cater to the difficult users that are doing stuff like this.

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After that pruning, you now have a new 0.1% of users using more files than the other 99.9%. Might as well prune that 0.1% of file hogs too. Rinse and repeat until you have no users left.

That's interesting, because if your argument is valid, they wouldn't have to roll back the change.

if filescount() > 5m then.. had to be removed. There is no quick release in a google scale monrepo and QA process.

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